HC Knife fighting

[Apache Warrior]

We had this problem with a BF2 server a couple of times too. It does not matter who were the guilty parties now. The ones that did it know who they are. We are just putting out a warning that if someone does it again they will be kicked and or banned.
Apache

[juneau]

We had this problem with a BF2 server a couple of times too. It does not matter who were the guilty parties now. The ones that did it know who they are. We are just putting out a warning that if someone does it again they will be kicked and or banned.
Apache

I happen to remember that it occurred in 2142 also.

[-413-]

I might be somewhat stupid, but I think some people's replies vs. other people's vs. Cain's original post has me second-guessing what I took originally as the meaning, perhaps someone (Cain? ) could clarify for me, so I know how to conduct myself accordingly?

I know Cain is saying basically no making people try to knife fight - the thing I'm getting confused about is, are we not to knife fight at all on the servers, or just not to insult people who don't want to? I guess the word "encourage" is a little fuzzy for me. If we can all agree to knife-fight, is it still go? Like, say there's 4 people in the HC server late night or something, and we all want to, I'm sure that has to be ok, if we are all enthusiastic about it?

And of course, if someone comes in and doesn't want to, we switch to normal rules, or let him shoot us like fish in a barrel I guess, I know it was mentioned that some people said they had agreed to go along with knife-only, but didn't really want to... I try to think of that when I'm in a knife-only "battle". Maybe a way to phrase it could be, "we're knife-only fighting, would you like to join? If you prefer normal rules, we can revert to that, too"... or something along those lines. Inviting them to our little game politely, and leaving them a comfort-zone to say "no, I'd rather just play normal".

I guess I'm over-involving myself in this - having a discussion in my head. I'm a little wound up from having such a busy day today, so my mind is all over.

Basically, my question boils down to - is knife-only completely barred from the server, or just ganging up and making players conform to something they don't want to do?

[Fitty-Six K]

are we not to knife fight at all on the servers

I hope not. It's a fun way to wind down a night of playing when it's just a few people.

[juneau]

If you want to knife, fine, but do not try to make others play that way ...

Pretty self explanatory if you ask me.

The encouragement, or rather from things we've heard, harassment, is where the line has been crossed.

[Rogue Listener]

I don't get this whole "knife fight" thing. I went into the server last night and everyone was just blowing each other up with C-4, and not playing the game. I left after that.

[Apache Warrior]

And that is the point. Cain is trying to build the server up in popularity and that type of behavior is a hindrance.
Apache

[Sgt.Fury]

And NO it wasn't me
I wont play HC as long as its FF is set to reflect ( I will shoot ya if you run in front of me )
I'm old school and ya don't question RANK

The next person I see, hear, or read about, encouraging knife fighting in the HC server will be banned....

If you want to knife, fine, but do not try to make others play that way ...

[Sirex]

I wont play HC as long as its FF is set to reflect

Unless your in a habit of spray and prey, or random nadeness, you never know reflect is on.
I've only had 1 person walk infront of me for the lifetime of the server, and thats cos he was escaping from the person i killed following him.

[LIMEY]

And NO it wasn't me
I wont play HC as long as its FF is set to reflect ( I will shoot ya if you run in front of me )
I'm old school and ya don't question RANK

Well reflect damage stops the asshattery of team killing, and makes people play more tactically and carefully!

[TEAMKILLERZ]

Well reflect damage stops the asshattery of team killing, and makes people play more tactically and carefully!

But teamkilling is fun!

[[BOS]2_Wycked]

the reflect damage is what saves the hc server from turning into the tdm server. i dont see how we could do without it

[Apache Warrior]

I love FF on but, asshats that deliberately TK can ruin a server. BF2 was especially prone to that.
Apache

[BLAZE86]

What about FF off?

[{CLR}geneSW]

What about FF off?

Then you get what the regular TDM server is, but with increased damage and reduced health... do you really want that?